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How to remove the dismiss keyboard action on tapping outside MDCTextField

I am trying to use an MDCTextField and a table view together. The MDCTextField filters the table view, then the user should tap a cell and the keyboard should dismiss and the table view should be hidden. The issue is that the keyboard dismisses and the table view is hidden before the table view registers that a cell was tapped. How can I register that a cell was tapped before the MDCTextField registers the tap?

MDCTextField

MDCTextField

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I use this extension you can place in a helpers.swift file but this way you can use on any UIViewController

extension UIViewController
func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround()
let tap: UITapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(UIViewController.dismissKeyboard))
tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false
view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)


@objc func dismissKeyboard()
view.endEditing(true)




To use it, on viewDidLoad() just add this self.hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround()

self.hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround()

EDIT Based on comment

In theory the following code should help, but I haven't got around to test it, I've read that people couldn't get the touchBegan function to trigger but I also don't know any other way to do what you want.

override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?)
if let touch = touches.first
let position = touch.location(in: view)
if let ip = tableView.indexPathForRow(at: position)
let cell = tableView.cellForRow(at: ip)
print(cell.text)





The theory is the following

First we get the position where the tap occurred then we get the IndexPath for the row witch was taped (if exists) as we have the IndexPath we just get the cell.

In the example I gave you I print the cell text, but you can do any other operation that you want

I hope this is what you want and you can get it to work as I did not got around to test it and seems that some people are getting problems triggering the touchesBegan function

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